"Maybe the only thing worse than being complicit in an all-powerful corrupt oligarchy is being complicit in an increasingly less powerful corrupt oligarchy." - Sam Lipsyte, making sense of 2025 in @nymag.com www.curbed.com/article/sam-...

For @nymag.com's Reasons to Love New York issue, I talked to a man who built every building in the five boroughs out of balsa wood www.curbed.com/article/reas...

internal family systems is a popular trauma therapy on tiktok and the mental health space. but is it a dangerous pseudoscience that can make vulnerable patients sicker? @nymag.com @thecut.com @rachelcorbett.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/trut...

A new breed of MAGA lobbyist is chasing the old firms out of Washington and updating the art of influence peddling under the new Trump administration, writes Ben Terris.

Ka-ching on K Street: the Trumpiest lobbyists are making a fortune off their ties to the White House @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

MAGA Catholics play a familiar game of conspiratorial dissent, but to what end? Within days of Pope Leo XIV’s election, Steve Bannon claimed the conclave had been ‘rigged.’

among the MAGA faithful at the conclave @nymag.com @racheldonadio.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...

Nick Hissom is over his tabloid-fodder divorce from Kameron Ramirez, even if the art dealer (and Steve Wynn stepson) is not ready to let go of his Cartier Love bracelet.

Every glamorous sentence of this excerpt blew my mind, I am now dying to read the book nymag.com/intelligence...

on tech's pivot from supercharging startups and crypto to breathwork and AI https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a44652092/ai-bitcoin-silicon-valley-crypto-crash/ @maza.bsky.social

a funny travel story? with a gwyneth cameo, and a swiss family robinson by way of italy cast of characters? they exist https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/travel-guide/a43991292/reschio-home-tour/